Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- credit can be used as a verb in the sense of "To believe." or "To add to an account (confer debit.)" or "To acknowledge a contribution."
- credit can be used as a noun in the sense of "Recognition and respect." or "# Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts." or "#: She received a singing credit in last year's operetta." or "# A written title shown with a film or video." or "#: They kissed, and then the credits rolled." or "A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid." or "The provision of resources (such as goods, services, or money) by one party (the creditor) to another party (the debtor) where that second party does not immediately pay the first party for the resources in full, and instead either arranges to pay for or to return those resources or equivalent value at a later date" or "A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment)." or "An addition to certain accounts." or "A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid." or "A valuable member." or "An arbitrary unit of value, used in many token economies."
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
